You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made.

I'm Rishikesh Herway.

This episode contains explicit language.

Angel Olson released her third album, My Woman, in September 2016.

It's been critically acclaimed, including Pitchfork's Best New Music and Enemies Best Albums of the Year.

In this episode, Angel Olson takes apart the song, Shut Up Kiss Me.

Coming up, she breaks down how she recorded it live in the studio with her band, and how she tried things with her voice that she'd never done before.

Hi, I'm Angel Olson.

This was the first song in a long time that I had spent a lot of time trying to write just like a simple guitar part for.

When I first envisioned it, I thought of it as like more fifties and relaxed.

For a long time, I would practice it and kind of reflect on it as a much more ballad to kind of song.

But I wrote the words and then I thought, oh, this could go in a totally different direction and be something really kind of tongue in cheek.

A little bit more, have a little bit more energy to it.

I don't know what it is, I just sang it differently one day.

It's sort of tongue in cheek and kind of mean, kind of yelling, but also like, hey, I care about you.

Anger is funny when you're not in it, but sometimes you just get in the heat of it and sometimes things come out.

I sort of just tried to riff on what I would say next to the person that I was mad at, even if you walk around as though you think you're right.

And I feel like I've said that to friends and people in my life and people have said that to me, stepping that way.

Come on.

There's a line in the second verse where I'm like, stop pretending, I'm not there when it's clear I'm not going anywhere.

Even if I'm out of sight, take another look around.

I don't know, yeah, I'm gone a lot.

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